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“The laurel-tree grew large and strong,
Its roots went searching deeply down;
It split the marble walls of Wrong,
And blossomed o'er the Despot's crown.”

Richard Henry Horne

The Laurel Seed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 439.

“T is always morning somewhere in the world.”

Richard Henry Horne

Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii. Compare: "'T is always morning somewhere", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wayside Inn. Birds of Killingworth, stanza 16.

“A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.”

Richard Henry Horne

Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.

“Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours.
Advance! spare not! nor look behind!
Plow deep and straight with all your powers!”

Richard Henry Horne

The Plow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); reported as The Plough in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 18-19.

“Far out at sea,—the sun was high,
While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
We saw a snow-white butterfly
Dancing before the fitful gale,
Far out at sea.”

Richard Henry Horne

Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.

“On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
Time and change can do no more.”

Richard Henry Horne

Dirge; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 342-44.

“The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on,
Subject to every doubt that can retard
Or fling it back upon an earlier time.”

Richard Henry Horne

Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.